一位女士用她的生日礼物——高压清洗机来释放她的创作潜力

They say that a good present is a practical one. So when Dianna’s birthday came along, her husband knew exactly what to get her. A pressure washer. Dianna had been thinking about it ever since the very first time she used one to help a girlfriend get her mom’s house ready to sell.

他们说好的礼物是实用的。所以当黛安娜的生日来临的时候，她的丈夫知道该送她什么。高压清洗机。自从黛安娜第一次用它帮她的女朋友把她妈妈的房子准备好出售的时候，她就一直在考虑这个问题。

For over a month, she had power washed everything she could, including the patio, the fence, the siding on the shop, several dirty shutters, and even the garbage cans. When it was time to tackle the biggest challenge, the driveway, she realized how long it would take and decided to go even further, turning it into an art project.

在一个多月的时间里，她让电力公司把她能洗的所有东西都洗了，包括院子、栅栏、商店的壁板、几个脏百叶窗，甚至是垃圾桶。当需要解决最大的挑战——车道的时候，她意识到这需要多长时间，于是决定更进一步，把它变成一个艺术项目。

Dianna was born and raised in Northern California and after retiring from over 36 years of working in an office moved to Burlington, North Carolina a little over two years ago. “I have done crazy art things since I was probably 5 years old,” she told Bored Panda. “No professional art training, though.”

黛安娜在北加州出生和长大，在一个办公室工作了超过36年后退休，两年前，她搬到北卡罗莱纳州伯灵顿。她在接受Bored Panda网站采访时表示:“我可能从5岁起就开始做一些疯狂的艺术作品。”“但没有接受过专业的艺术培训。”

At first, Dianna pressure washed some encouraging words like “love” onto the concrete. However, that wasn’t enough for her. She then wanted to create something more intricate and began covering the path with motifs from the natural world.

一开始，黛安娜用高压清洗机把一些鼓励的话，比如“爱”，冲刷到了混凝土上。然而，这对她来说还不够。然后，她想要创造一些更复杂的东西，并开始用来自自然界的图案覆盖这条道路。

“As pleased as I was with the upper driveway ‘word art’, I was inspired to see what else I could do with this wonderful new toy,” Dianna wrote. “Although I am still learning techniques and am not completely satisfied with the results, I guess one could say, ‘This is just what might happen when a husband gets an artist a power washer for her birthday!'”

黛安娜写道:“虽然我对上车道的‘文字艺术’很满意，但我还是受到了启发，想看看这个奇妙的新玩具还能做些什么。”“虽然我还在学习技术，对结果不是很满意，但我想有人会说，‘这就是当一个丈夫给一个艺术家买了一台高压清洗机作为生日礼物时可能会发生的事情!’”

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